You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets. You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about yourself and about your relationships, as well as more energy rather than less. You may find that, rather than exhausting yourself or your resources, you will replenish them. Such is the power of mindful, selfless generosity. At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient . . . only the universe rearranging itself.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.